Bill and Kyle are two ordinary guys interested in the extraordinary. As 'Mandate33', they have set off in search of unusual places (inspired by Jim Brandon's seminal book Weird America) and documented them in short YouTube videos.

Above you'll find Bill and Kyle introducing themselves, as well as a couple of locations that they visited, while in the clip below they travel to Point Pleasant, home of the Mothman, on the 45th anniversary of the infamous Silver Bridge collapse. While there they interview Rush Finley, owner and proprietor of the historic Lowe Hotel, who was witness to the events of the infamous UFO flap and Mothman sightings in 1966/7...and also discover an unusual synchronicity regarding John Keel and the Silver Bridge tragedy.

Oh, and they also get far too up close and personal to the Mothman for my liking. Let's just say the famous cryptid has a butt that just won't quit...

A security camera inside a British shop seems to have recorded some fascinating poltergeist activity: behind an unaware customer, a tea box levitates for a few seconds, while another box comes crashing down the floor. Does the craving for a nice cup of tea persists in the afterlife?

Owner Michelle Newbold told Kent Online she came across the footage while doing her weekly review of the tapes.

"I was perplexed I suppose. I just couldn't believe it. I have no idea about how it has happened," she said.

The clip, uploaded last Friday, has already been seen more than 55,000 times.

Many viewers believe it is a marketing hoax for the store. But Newbold insists it is the real deal.

"I'd be interested to find out more if anyone knows anything because I have no clue. I have never seen anything like this since I have been in the shop," she added.

On February 28th, a man was found unconscious in a motel in Palm Springs. His photo identification showed him to be Michael Thomas Boatwright, a veteran who had served from 1971 to 1973 in the U.S. Navy as an aviation mechanic. But when he woke up in the emergency room of the local hospital, he claimed to be someone else:

When Michael Boatwright woke up in the emergency room at Desert Regional Medical Center, the nurses began asking him questions for which it became clear he had no answers. The gray-haired, soft-spoken man looked at his identity card and didn’t recognize his own face. He answered only to Johan Ek.

He walked up to the sink, stared at the reflection of the 61-year-old man facing him in the mirror and said he was going to throw up.

Though his driver’s license said he was born in Florida, he spoke only in Swedish and said he remembered nothing about his life before.

“The guy Michael — it wasn’t me. I’m still Johan,” he said through a translator in a recent hospital interview, twisting his water bottle around in his hands.

Rare book and manuscript collectors, please collect your drool from the floor. In the video above Darklore contributor Adam Gorightly shows off "something that is going to be fundamental to his upcoming project: the complete, 60 page first edition Principia Discordia, one of only five copies, this one being the personal copy of Mal-2." Careful turning those pages man!

Interest in the crop circle phenomenon has been on the wane since the much-publicised 1991 confession of 'Doug and Dave', two British men who said they had kick-started a hoaxing industry by creating circles in fields armed only with wooden planks. But now a researcher is claiming to have proof that the phenomenon pre-dates Doug and Dave's pranking by at least 33 years.

[H]istorian Greg Jefferys, who has a degree in archaeology, says he has new evidence that not all crop circles have a human origin.

After spending more than 300 hours examining aerial photographs from Google Earth’s new 1945 overlay, Jefferys concludes that a number of crop circles has been appearing consistently each summer for at least 33 years before Chorley and Bower began their work.

The overlay, according to the Huffington Post, is a series of images taken toward the end of World War II and covers about 35 percent of England, excluding the Wiltshire area, a crop-circle hotspot that has attracted numerous tourists.

Been unemployed for a while? Not sure what you want to be when you grow up? Looking to get back into the workforce after being a stay-at-home parent? Keep your eye on the classifieds in the newspaper, because you never know when your dream job might come up...

I am quite sure most of you have seen the rather large green dragon that has been flying over northeast OKC for the better part of a week. I am looking for someone to:

Lure said dragon away from OKC to a more rural area.

Force said dragon to land in rural area.

Slay said dragon in whatever way you see fit.

No pay, dragon slaying is its own reward. Please note that I am not talking about the red dragon that frequents the area from time to time. He and I have an agreement.

Andrew Nicholson, curator of the Weird Australia website and author of the book of the same name, has made his fascinating book available as a free Kindle eBook download for the next 24 hours (sorry folks, time is up - back to regular price now). With Kindle apps freely available for tablet and desktop computers, there's no reason not to grab this while it's on offer - and just as much reason to actually buy the thing if you miss out on the free period:

Through real reports from the earliest days of European settlement to more recent times, we delve into all things mysterious and unexplained - from eyewitness accounts of the hairy man, sea serpents and big cats to strange objects flying through the skies and encounters with poltergeists, ghosts and other curious visitors from another time and space.

Whether you are a true believer in the paranormal, an interested sceptic or someone who just loves to be entertained with great stories, Weird Australia: Real Reports of Uncanny Creatures, Strange Sightings & Extraordinary Encounters makes great reading.

And keep your eye on the Weird Australia website for ongoing additions to the stranger side of Australia. Well, stranger than what passes for normal around here anyhow...

In 1836, five boys were hunting rabbits on the north-eastern slopes of Arthur’s Seat, the main peak in the group of hills in the center of Edinburgh. In a small cave in the crags of the hill they stumbled across seventeen miniature coffins carved in pine and decorated with tinned iron. Carefully arranged in a three-tiered stack, each coffin contained a small wooden figure with painted black boots and individually crafted clothing.

What are these objects? Who made them and who buried them? And why? To this day, no one has any real idea.

For those of you who were unable to attend to last week's Paradigm Symposium in Minneapolis, Maureen Elsberry and Jason McClellan of Open Minds have included a really nice review of the event in the latest edition of Spacing Out (the segment starts at 12:28)